Musician and experimental filmmaker John Wiese is making his Houston debut, and he’s rounded up some of the most out-there artists in the city to help him. “It’s kind of unbelievable considering how many shows I’ve played in the U.S., but I’ve simply never had the opportunity to play in Texas before,” says Wiese. “The scene in Houston is legendary, of course, and I’ve had correspondences with artists there dating back to the mid-90s.” It all starts with a timbral-based noise performance by some of the best of improvisational musicians in Texas, like Sandy Ewen, Parham Daghighi, Damon Smith and Houston Press contributor Steve Jansen. Then Wiese screens a series of his experimental films including Mirror, a triumph of Wiese’s obsessions with the demystification of performing minimal sound works in a live setting. “A man and a woman listen to a very loud and aggressive sound piece and struggle with falling asleep standing up,” says Wiese. “Using cuts and editing, their experiences envelope each other as the piece progresses. At screenings of this work, the image has been projected very large and the sound reproduced at significant volume, creating a situation in which the audience became a third participant.”
Doors open at 8 p.m. with the music set to start at 8:30 p.m. 14 Pews, 800 Aurora Street. For information, call 281-888-9677 or visit 14pews.org. $10.
Photo by Randy Yau
Sat., April 5, 8:30 p.m., 2014
This article appears in Apr 3-9, 2014.